Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said five lakh ponds would be created under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana. Stressing that irrigation facilities development, he said, Centre has asked State governments to prepare district irrigation plans. Addressing a function in New Delhi today, Mr Singh said, 150 districts have already made irrigation plan and he hoped by September this year every district will chalk out their plans. <br/><br/>The Minister said, this year, centre has allocated 12,500 crore rupees for the completion of 23 irrigation projects and a corpus of 20 thousand crore has been planned for irrigation development. The minister said, due to 14 percent deficit in rain this year,10 states are drought affected but center is extending all possible help to the state governments. <br/><br/>Mr Singh said, center will distribute soil health cards to all 14 crore farmers in the country by march 2017. He said, this scheme aims at promoting soil test based and balanced use of fertilizers so that farmers can realize higher yield at lower cost.